The European Space Agency organised a Scientific Conference on the topical theme atmosphere to provide scientists and data users with the opportunity to present first-hand and up-to-date results from their ongoing research activities on the atmospheric payload of the satellites ERS-2 and Envisat as well as ESA Third Party Missions on board the EOS-AURA, ACE, Odin and GOSAT satellites.

The conference included discussions on applications, data quality, the development of new algorithms/data products, and studies on future atmospheric missions.

Objectives

The objectives of the Atmospheric Science Conference 2009 were to:

• Provide a forum for ESA Principal Investigators to present results of AO and Cat1 projects
• Provide a forum for knowledge exchange of scientists using atmospheric satellite measurements
• Inform data users about instrument performance, data processing and product quality
• Discuss various aspects of the data ordering process, data analysis and interpretation
• Demonstrate the synergistic use of different atmospheric instruments
• Demonstrate the synergistic use of atmospheric and optical instruments (e.g. AATSR/SCIAMACHY)
• Formulate recommendations for algorithm development

Themes

The conference themes were:

• Data Quality
• Troposphere/Air Quality
• Greenhouse Gases
• Stratosphere
• Upper Atmosphere
• Cloud/Aerosols
• Applications/Data Assimilation
• Future Mission Studies

Workshop files:

Day 1, Monday 7 September 2009 (42,3 MB)

Day 2, Tuesday 8 September 2009 (72,1 MB)

Day 3, Wednesday 9 September 2009 (30,6 MB)

Day 4, Thursday 10 September 2009 (74,2 MB)

Day 5, Friday 11 September 2009 (15,9 MB)